My file server has different files visible to different people, based on groups and file permissions. I planned to buy a Google Search Appliance and configure it to crawl this network shared drive via CIFS (aka SMB). Will the search appliance present a user only with files to which he/she has access? Answer From the … Read more
I have an EMC NX4 from which there are several CIFS shares with corresponding NFS mount points. The CIFS user ids seem fine but when viewed from Linux they are all 327xx numbers and can’t be set from the file system. (IE CHOWN doesn’t work – permission denied). On our other (older) EMC devices we … Read more
I need to document which physical drives each server depends on ( SAN, on an external array, iSCSI etc). Since this potentially a many-many relationship, with dependencies, finding a usable solution is a small challenge. What tools (or Excel tricks) do you use to document the dependencies mentioned above? Answer If your familiar with Perl, … Read more
I am trying to execute a program on a CIFS mounted partition in SUSE 11.1. Whenever I try executing it, I get a “could not execute binary file” error. Using strace, I was able to determine that the shell was getting a ENOEXEC error on execve(). I have verified that the binary does have the … Read more
I’ve run into another oddity recently on our cluster with respect to Windows 2003 and Windows 7 (using Explorer or even plain batch files, C# programs, FORTRAN programs, etc) and files on a CIFS share mapped without our fully-qualified-domain name. Our files are being stored on an Isilon running OneFS 6.5 (plus some minor rev). … Read more
I have a folder mounted by using NFS on the server. That folder has subdirectories, and I want to share specific folders to specific user groups by using SAMBA. It doesn’t work as expected, because every user can create files, but then they can only access their own files, and not the files from others. … Read more
My CIFS mount for ISOs stopped working recently. I tried to detatch it and re-attach it, however I get the following error: http://imgur.com/0R47r I tried looking this error up, however I cannot conclusively determine what is failing. I have restarted the host xenserver as well as the host serving the target. So far as I … Read more
After installing a CIFS server on Solaris 11 today I run into a problem after updating the /etc/pam.d/other to include the line “other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn”. After that I can no longer set any password by using “passwd” cmd. If I uncomment the new line in /etc/pam.d/other, it is possible to change the password. … Read more
I’m hoping someone can help me here with understanding how a windows file copy differs between a copy using terracopy (or similar) and what that means for contention on my NAS head. Background: Server 1 – 2008r2 NAS head with a Stornext volume (client software required to see volume) attached by fiber, teamed 10Gb nic … Read more
Hi I have tried to mount with three ways for all of them I got the same error. 1) sudo chmod 777 /estore sudo mount –t cifs -o user=domain/username%MYPASSWORD,noserverino //domain /estore 2) sudo chmod 777 /estore sudo mount –t cifs -o user=domain/username%MYPASSWORD,noserverino -rw //domain /estore 3) sudo chmod 777 /estore sudo mount –t cifs -o … Read more
